So you have storylines about fear of rejection or jealousy or mourning loss, and the severity gradually increases over the plot, but you work through the arc and come to an earned resolution. Not that it's especially remarkable at it, just that working through feelings naturally comes with healing

I just bought it on Steam like 30 minutes ago because of hearing they were losing the distribution license for it, I always wanted to play through it but I keep thinking "Oh this would be fun to play with friends" but it never comes up

Besides all the story stuff, they handle the dual screen stuff surprisingly really well, and give you a lot of control over it, it's a super good port imo

Honestly, one benefit to art is being able to indulge in specific emotions that you might feel are neglected in you, but adulthood is full of complicated feelings. Stuff like Battle Network and Star Force are great for modeling more straightforward feelings and confronting those in a comfortable way

Been playing Mega Man Star Force 1 bit by bit, I think it might suffer in comparison to Battle Network, but not as much as I remember. It feels a bit streamlined, but it (and most shonen stuff) is great for generally keeping a light tone, being pretty optimistic, but also taking its stakes seriously

ORAS shiny hunting Gulpin on the toilet while my friends wait for me in the other room

"I want shorter games with worse graphics made by people who are paid more to work less" Sonic people transforming into Jon Bernthal dream sequence Frank Castle when Pokemon budgets leaked

Can't overstate the value of Toxic against teams leading Glimmora. Won a stall battle purely because they regular poisoned my Pokemon and I Toxic poisoned theirs

Adamantium skeleton

Creaches peeped

I don't think that's it, since I've never met a lazy game developer in my life. If I'm gonna assume it's not for nefarious purposes, my guesses would be either to characterize your protagonist or to keep you engaged with the plot by giving you some way to interact. What do you think?

By the time you hit Ultra Ball, everyone's got a few core strategies and you're all trying to figure out how to position each other into prime position for you to spring that trap

I think in Poke Ball Rank, you can kind of just do whatever, you barely need to even look at the other team. In Great Ball Rank, you need to see what the other team is using and try to predict what you can go with that'll be strong against that, but it's still possible to brute force it a bit

Assuming that they're not doing it for the explicit purpose of pissing you off, why do you think they do it?

According to everyone, this is where I'm gonna live now

They're going to give him ONE more chance to do whatever he wants forever with zero consequences, THEN they'll step in

Homestar Runner thinking with his room

I avoid this by having kids who are my age or older

We don't even need Temtem for that, I'm shown that exact scenario 400 times a day on this website

Art's all about human emotion, one way or another. In that way, the drama is inevitable

Welp, time to go home

Gotta get in my combat stance

Climbing the singles ladder 'cause it's easier than duos when you've got like no team. Easy enough to just build bread and butter staples, take a few inevitable losses that you can't really prep for in 3v3, but generally take more wins overall

ORAS shiny hunting Gulpin with the most garlicky ramen I've ever eaten

I think there's a lot of high-mindedness in the How to Win Friends and Influence People type of self-help, but the real secret to winning people over is just let them tell you things you already know and, when they tell you a story, listen for who their enemy is and be like "Why'd they do that??"

"joy is resistance" is for black people facing government brutality. palestinians experiencing genocide. latinos living in fear of ice. iranians experiencing western aggression.
not you, sitting at your pc telling yourself to have some ice cream to feel better while your government kills people.

I love video games but unfortunately there’s literally no better way to spend 100 minutes than watch a movie

ORAS shiny hunting Gulpin, 431 encounters over a #7

Did some late night shopping to get some pierogies in under the wire for First Contact Day

George Herbert Walker Bush mpreg